Homegrown Profiles: Bic Runga

This episode of C4's music series Homegrown Profiles features singer/songwriter Bic Runga, who burst onto the New Zealand music scene in 1997 with her record-breaking debut album Drive. Since then Runga has had both local and international success and released two further hit albums, Beautiful Collision and Birds. Runga talks about growing up in a musical household (her mother and two older sisters are all singers), the success of Drive, and her "difficult second album", which was released a full five years after her debut. 

The album that I've just made now, the goal was kind of to make a record that was imagining rock having never happened because it's really sparse. There's no distorted guitar. I love that sort of music but I don't make it that well. I wish I could, but I just don't do it as well as other people.

– Bic Runga on her album Birds

Key Cast & Crew

Jane Yee

Director, Interviewer

Leanda Borrett

Producer

Matthew Heine

Sound Mix

Mikee Carpinter

Camera

Andrew Stewart

Editor